We are delighted to announce that Hamish Pepper will be joining Harbour Asset Management in mid-July as a Fixed Income Market Strategist.

Hamish joins the Harbour investment team with specific responsibilities for macro-economic research, and fixed interest and currency strategy. He will be working alongside Mark Brown (Head of Fixed Income), George Henderson (Portfolio Manager) and Simon Pannett (Senior Credit Analyst) in managing our fixed income funds.

Hamish brings with him a wealth of experience in economics and market […]

Yields on fixed interest securities, which have been falling sharply all year, took another surge lower last week. The 5-year swap rate, a good proxy for market rates in New Zealand reached 1.36%, down from 2.20% at Christmas 2018 and 2.65% a year ago. That’s a record low level for NZ bond yields. The primary catalyst last week was a signal that the US Federal Reserve is close to cutting rates. They are joining the central banks […]

Global listed real estate is once again adding diversification benefits to balanced portfolios, and at the same time, delivering the underlying bricks and mortar economic returns of the underlying real estate. Here, we explore new and innovative opportunities across the world that we feel are important in building a dynamic yet stable real estate portfolio for customers.

“Within Global Listed Real Estate, we’re looking for defensive growth,” explains James Maydew, Head of […]

Investors need to factor in the opportunity and potential disruption of new technology and changing consumer preferences for mobile and fixed broadband communication. Fifth generation mobile networks (5G) provide a transformational shift in the telecommunications landscape. Why is this change so important?

• It enables new technologies, like driverless cars, mobile medicine, the Internet of Things
• It may accelerate the transition from fixed to wireless networks encouraging substitution, and
• the 5G proposition is radically different from […]